The new bill would ensure that an “independent contractor” has to be independent, not just a wage-slave with no power to “contract” for anything
Uber and other employers of so-called “independent contractors” may take their case to California voters. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images California is the legendary homeland of the New Economy — but also of some of the nation’s most politically powerful labor unions.
A person providing labor or services for remuneration shall be considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation or business.
The proposed law will also make it possible for these newly classified employees to unionize, which certainly helped ensure labor support.
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